I agree.
You can also post a message to the effect of "Image uploads to this
Wiki are discouraged, please use Commons instead".
That way, you will get less uploads.
Mark
On 28/10/05, monk(a)zoomcon.com <monk(a)zoomcon.com> wrote:
Hello Marcus,
Thursday, October 27, 2005, 8:05:56 PM, you wrote:
I made a request for this on the wiki since July
[1]. There were little response
to this (but this is not astonishing, because there a few regular contributors
at all) and no real concerns against it. Reasons for the deactivating are, that
we have no expertise on legal issues regarding images so we couldn't sort out
violations of licences effectively if such would occur. Additionally we have
only generated around 100 images in two and a halv years of existence of which
I already deleted 50, because they were duplicates of images which are now on
Commons. So it seems better, when users of nds.wikipedia esteem the Commons as
their main image repository.
I think it is wrong to disable image uploads on any
Wikipedia. Users
should have place to upload any images that are either 1) interesting
only to this local wikipedia, not any other; 2) not totally free, just
fair use or smth.
While you are admin, you should enforce right copyright policy and
delete unappropriate images; but you shouldn't request blocking the
ability of uploading at all.
IMHO.
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monk mailto:monk@zoomcon.com
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